Left any food item in your vest that has went bad. My brother called me today and told me that my nephew had just brought his vest back from last season and threw it in their shed. He went out the other day to get it and found out that he left a banana and orange in the game pouch. He said that he cleaned it with the hose, laundry soap and a lot of scrubbing. Just wondering if you guys have left anything in your vest that turned into something nasty??
A Payday candy bar and some trail mix but both were in a plastic baggie so nothing got funky.
Bet he doesn't do that again!
not me, but I know a guy that left a squirrel in his small game coat!! Wasn't pretty!
Peanut butter and jelly sandwich I made in March 2014 before hunting osceolas one morning. Found it up in my game bag when I finished up my season in New York on Memorial Day weekend. It was almost unrecognizable in the ziploc bag...
you know one of them dove can get pretty ripe , oh dang!
the bird pouch and the bird got cooked in the burn barrel :fire:
Dang I guess his wasn't so bad after all compared to some of you guys.....lol
found some Morels in mine
Left a bluegill in the livewell one summer. Lots of soapy bleach water to fix that oops.
Pop tarts
I had a quail get inside the liner of a Filson upland vest (last day of the season of course)... I came home, emptied the vest, and was a bird short. I figured it had fallen out somehow, and although disappointed at losing a bird, I did not think much about it.
Couple months later the garage really started to smell... I finally tracked the odor to my vest. I wrote Filson, and they replaced the vest with an improved model without a liner...
No way to wash that smell out... When I asked them what they wanted me to do with the old vest, they asked me how bad the odor was. When I relayed my feelings, they told me I could keep it... I tried pulling the liner out, but it made little difference...
Even though they replaced it, it made me cry a little to throw that vest in the garbage (as it is probably one of the most expensive hunting garments I own)... But that vest made poop smell good.
Left an apple in mine. Didn't stink...just shriveled up to the size of a golf ball by the time I found it the next season.
Quote from: fallhnt on March 07, 2016, 08:56:33 PM
Pop tarts
Ought to still be good for the 2018 season opener
I left my dove vest hanging on the porch once with a few birds in it. I can't remember what made me forget about them but when I remembered I just dreaded the thought of what I had to deal with. Well lucky for me, I may have forgotten them but the old farm cat didn't and he cleaned it out before they got bad. Probably the only thing he did that was worth a flip.
One fiber bar that was still good 10 months later.
Rabbit hunting years ago, shot a woodcock early in the day and I completely forgot it was in my game vest.
It only took a few days, it was nasty smelling for sure.
Not my turkey vest but I left a container of nightcrawler in my fishing vest. This was in my younger days and I threw it in the trunk of my car. Well , a few weeks later , after some 90 degree days my buddies and I couldn't figure out where the funky smell was coming from. After digging around and not finding anything I popped the trunk. The odor hit us like a right hook from Tyson. Next thing I know my one buddy is losing his lunch in the driveway. Still the worst thing I've smelled to this day. I never did get the odor out of the trunk completely.
10 Medium size Bluefish + 1 165 qt Igloo cooler + 2 weeks mid-June NY = Catastrophe
Quote from: Gobble! on March 07, 2016, 09:49:54 PM
One fiber bar that was still good 10 months later.
I've got a hard enough time trying to keep from finding a likely place to empty my bowels, let alone taking along a fiber bar. As for leaving food in a vest, I left a half eaten container of smoked oysters in my squirrel vest along with some cheddar cheese and crackers. The cheese took on life of its own the oysters turned to mush and the crackers just went stale. The aroma was unique but not overbearing. Just blasted it with the hose and let it dry. Still use it today.
I found something bluish green and semi liquid in a ziplock bag in my vest one time. Not sure what it was and I didn't open it to find out. My first thought was giblets, but I always eat them not long after getting home so it couldn't have been that.
Bob
I regularly leave Granola Bars in my Turkey vest and my Deer Backpack..
But a couple years ago I went to get my vest to get ready for the season.. and found a real mess.. we had a mouse get into the closet and he chewed through the mesh lined pocket of the vest that the granola bar was in then chewed through the wrapper.. ruined that pocket and left an awful mess.. I went out that day and got a glue trap and stuck a piece of Granola in the middle of it.. I figured he must like it.. I caught him that same night ..
Now my vest has duct tape lining on that pocket :)
I now try to remember to remove any Granola Bars after the season..
Quote from: Tunaguy on March 08, 2016, 11:00:53 AM
10 Medium size Bluefish + 1 165 qt Igloo cooler + 2 weeks mid-June NY = Catastrophe
Nothing can compete w this.
This does sound very disgusting. I would just have thrown the whole thing in the trash.......
Went over TT's other day and he was out back standing in outhouse (for you too young to
remember..an outside toilet) and door was open and TT just standing there facing the
"Johnny hole"....well I walk up and ask TT what he doing with that little fishing pole
dangling it down in the johnny hole....he said he dropped his jackert down in here and
trying to get it out....I said "You can't use it when you get it out...he said "Yea, but I got a
sandwich in the pocket!".....Mel Tillis...ole stuttering Mel...told that story once and
I akways thought that best one ever heard....nothing to do with turkeys but think of it as
you working that mouth call as ole big boy getting closer and guarantee you will swallow it!
Fortunately, negative! Good scrubbing :happy0064: